On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have built today a linux-next (next-20101201) kernel which includes >> wireless-next-2.6 up to master-2010-11-30. >> > [...] >> Unfortunately, my wlan network connection is totally unstable. > [...] >> My wlan device is an ath5k: >> >> $ lspci -nnvv | grep "Ethernet controller" | grep -i ath >> 02:02.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 >> 802.11abg NIC [168c:1014] (rev 01) >> >> Any idea what's wrong? (Just speculating on the last patch-set from Nick...) > > So it is definitely not Nick's patchset causing the troubles here. > I have built compat-wireless-2010-11-30 which does not contain this > ath5 patchset. > > $ grep ath5k compat-wireless-2010-11-29_compat-wireless-2010-11-30.diff > > $ grep ath5k compat-wireless-2010-11-30_compat-wireless-2010-12-01.diff | wc -l > 1229 > > # modinfo ath5k | grep filename > filename: > /lib/modules/2.6.37-rc4-686/updates/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.ko > > So I try backwards the c-w-2.6 tarballs and report again. > I am very very sorry to say this was a false "positive" (or negative?). After 1st reboot and trying to restart networking, things look different with c-w (2010-11-30): # /etc/init.d/networking start Configuring network interfaces...ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device Could not get interface 'wlan0' flags ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: No such device Could not configure driver to use managed mode ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: No such device ioctl[SIOCGIWMODE]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWESSID]: No such device ioctl[SIOCGIFINDEX]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device ioctl[SIOCGIWMODE]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWESSID]: No such device ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1 SIOCSIFADDR: No such device wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Failed to bring up wlan0. done. What is really working stable is compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc3-1 (confirmed after several reboots). I will stay on this as I need a reliable network connection. - Sedat - -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
